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Want to retain the right to dress how you see fit? Then consider steering clear of parts of the Crown Heights neighborhood in Brooklyn, where new signs are popping up asking residents, guests, and visitors to "please dress modestly, this is a Jewish neighborhood." Crown Heights has a large Hasidic Jewish population, but the neighborhood in general has been "rapidly gentrifying," note New York's Daily Intelligencer.

The Brooklyn Reader suggests that the signs are behind a larger effort to "show increased solidarity for the conflict in Israel," but critics say they're out of bounds on public streets. Women surveyed by PIX 11 were against them, with an Orthodox Jewish respondent saying she thinks it is "very important that we don't inflict our views on anyone." (Check out what makes this Hasidic Jewish town in New York unique.)

I tried avoid Brooklyn, but when I went there......the only signs I saw were done with the hands and fingers- Both suggistive but you don't have to follow them.

BoiseNoise

Aug 1, 2014 9:47 PM CDT

I wonder if this was the neighborhood where my daughter attempted to place an order at a tiny Jewish restaurant, and the waiter brought back her friend's order, but not hers . . . apparently he was only allowed to "hear" orders from male customers. It was a weird experience.

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Aug 1, 2014 7:08 PM CDT

I've always questioned this hypocrisy. They hate sl()ts, want them to cover up but at the same time they want to sleep with them.